I have a PhD in linguistics and work as a computer scientist.
There are no hard and fast requirements for ANY degree for my position since at this point experience trumps a degree. In fact, we try NOT to hire people with a CS degree since those folks are harder to retrain into proper software development practices.
I have a GED, and my current job would normally require* a Bachelors at the very least. Many people who hold my job have more advanced degrees.
*Please note that I don’t feel that any sort of degree is required to DO my job, but only that it’s generally required to GET my job.
I have an associates in network support, and ten years in helpdesk experience. Oh well at least it has to do with computers.
I have a BA in Psychology and a BS in Management Information Systems. I have 304 hours of college credit, which is more than most PhD people have. I am the guy of many hats in my lawn & tree care and snow removal business. I’m a licensed commercial pesticide applicator.
My formal education has surprisingly little to do with my job. The most valuable class I ever took was Tax Law.
My degree got me in the door, but it has nothing to do with my work. I work at a subtitling company. When I started here, I applied for a job as an English editor, a position that requires a bachelor’s in English “or related field.” My degree’s in psychology, but I had extensive experience in publications and editing throughout high school and college. That was good enough to get me in.
I now work in a different department, doing a different job, and it still has nothing to do with anything I did for psychology.
My position does not require any formal education.
I have multiple postgraduate degrees, one of which is essential for my current position (the JD), and the other of which is useful, but not a requirement (the PhD). I do suspect that I might not have gotten an interview at this job without the PhD, but I don’t actually use it beyond what I learned as an undergrad.
PhD in history; am currently a professor teaching music history and ancient history.
Museum studies degree (emphasis on curatorial work); worked for a while at a couple of museums in a curatorial capacity/exhibition design and space/exhibition research and planning, still do the occasional consulting for a small one locally.
I used to teach Latin at the university level, and that got me current on/off work teaching ESL students. Also because of university level teaching experience, I teach a course in cultural and pedagogical technique for my university’s TA summer institute for incoming international graduate students (course instruction, syllabus planning, lecture techniques – but mostly what the new TAs worry about how will they cope with naughty students in the classroom. Got experience with that, too. 
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I picked “you left me out.” I have an AS degree, and it is required of my position as an RN. Other alternate routes are a diploma program (rarer these days) and a Bachelor’s degree, which is more common. All graduates of whatever type of nursing education program must pass the same national level exam before being licensed, the dreaded NCLEX.
My last job I only had my high school diploma, and while I hated my job I did make fairly decent pay.
Then I got laid off and was qualified for the government to pay for up to two years of training. Loving computers but knowing that a two year programming or computer support tech degree would get me nowhere (even the college was phasing them out) I went for a networking degree because there were plenty of companies who only required an Associates degree. Not only that, but companies use to pick people out of the networking program their second year. A lot of people never completed their second year because they got a job, or they had the promise of a job after receiving their degree. This was still happening in 2007 when I entered the program. During that time the economy is starting to tank but I figure it will get better by the time I graduate :smack:. When I graduate in 2009 not only are companies no longer picking out second year students, but everywhere I look they now want bachelor’s degrees :mad:
So I have an AAS and it’s doing me absolutely no freakin’ good.
I hold a bachelor’s degree, and I’m approaching the point in my career (pharmaceutical industry, QA/QC/Reg. Affairs) where I can only advance to a position that would normally require a graduate degree. I am, however, reviewing the situation.
Magistrate?! I think I’d better think it out again!
I have a BA in History, am currently a graduate student (history), and am employed by a history museum. I really can’t get anywhere in my career without a minimum of a master’s.
I have a BA in Psychology and almost done with a masters in Human Resources (put I have a masters degree cause I’ll finish this year) and I work in a position in the finance dept of my company that really only requires a HS diploma. It’s my first “real” job though and in this job market I’m okay with that. After one year you are allowed to move around within the company and when a year hits I’ll have my masters and plan on moving into the HR department or if I can’t, moving to another company. This job is all about beefing up the resume and getting my foot in the door with a solid company.